WEBVTT YOU'RE WATCHING KOATACTION 7 NEWS AT 6:00.DOUG: IT'S OUR MOST-LOVED, ANDMOST FAMOUS PRODUCT, GREEN CHILEOF COURSE.SHELLY: AND WE WANTED TO KNOWHOW THIS YEAR'S CROP IS LOOKING,SO WE SENT METEOROLOGIST ERICGREEN INTO THE CHILE FIELDS TOFIND OUT IF THIS SPRING'SUNUSUAL WEATHER IS HAVING ANYEFFECT.REPORTER: THE COOLER AND WETTURN THIS SPRING HAS TAKEN ON USIS STARTING TO HAVE AN EFFECT ONOUR BELOVED GREEN CHILE.>> AND HAS BEEN HELD UP A LITTLEBIT BY THE WEATHER.REPORTER: HERE IN SAN ANTONIO,NEW MEXICO WHICH IS JUST SOUTH, OF SOCORRO, SEEDS THAT WEREPLANTED OVER A MONTH AGO AREJUST BARELY UP ABOVE THE GROUND.THE PLANTS ARE ONLY AN INCH ORTWO TALL RIGHT NOW BUT STEVESAYS DON'T WORRY.>> THEY LOOK HEALTHY AND WE ARETRYING TO KEEP THEM THAT WAY.REPORTER: SEEING HIS 50-ACRECROP THROUGH THE SEASON CAN BESTRESSFUL.STEVE ESTIMATES HE HAS10-$15,000 INVESTED JUST IN THESEEDS.>> IT LIKES HOT AND DRY.JUNE THEY START GETTING HOT IN ALITTLE BIT BIGGER.THEY START TAKING OFF.REPORTER: KEEPING THEM WATERED,PAYING HIS WORKERS, FACTORING INPESTICIDES AND OTHER OPERATINGCOSTS AND THEN NEEDING OURWEATHER TO COOPERATE, HAVE HIMWORKING AND WAITING A LONG TIMETO SELL HIS CROP.>> BY MID AUGUST WE WILL HAVEENOUGH CROP TO GET GOING.REPORTER: WHICH IS BY STEVE'SESTIMATE A WEEK OR 10 DAYS LATERTHAN NORMAL.WITH THE ALWAYS INCREASING COSTSOF RUNNING A FARM AND RANCH,STEVE SAYS PRICES COULD BE ABUCK OR TWO HIGHER PER SACK BUTOVERALL, PRICES WILL BE CLOSE TOLAST YEAR'S.IN SAN ANTONIO, I'MMETEOROLOGIST ERIC GREEN, KOAT